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Windows 10 Desktop Icons are showing full text name

LovesLaus

Hi,

 

I have a windows 10 and the desktop icon names are showing the full text name Attached picture label test.

i have tried change the icon size via scroll wheel and the display settings, and right clicking the desktop.

I also tried to change the spacing in regedit, but that also did not work

test 2 is what icons should normally look like.

Any suggestions on hot to resolve this will help.

 

Thanks.

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Control Panel > Display > Appearance > Advanced


Under Item, scroll down to Icon Spacing(Horizontal) and change size to larger number. May need to change other Items - eg. Vertical Spacing, Icon size, etc.
to view way want Icon Text to show on desktop.

Click Apply and Ok after changing settings.

Personal Desktop":

CPU: Intel Core i7 10700K @5ghz |~| Cooling: bq! Dark Rock Pro 4 |~| MOBO: Gigabyte Z490UD ATX|~| RAM: 16gb DDR4 3333mhzCL16 G.Skill Trident Z |~| GPU: RX 6900XT Sapphire Nitro+ |~| PSU: Corsair TX650M 80Plus Gold |~| Boot:  SSD WD Green M.2 2280 240GB |~| Storage: 1x3TB HDD 7200rpm Seagate Barracuda + SanDisk Ultra 3D 1TB |~| Case: Fractal Design Meshify C Mini |~| Display: Toshiba UL7A 4K/60hz |~| OS: Windows 10 Pro.

Luna, the temporary Desktop:

CPU: AMD R9 7950XT  |~| Cooling: bq! Dark Rock 4 Pro |~| MOBO: Gigabyte Aorus Master |~| RAM: 32G Kingston HyperX |~| GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX (Reference) |~| PSU: Corsair HX1000 80+ Platinum |~| Windows Boot Drive: 2x 512GB (1TB total) Plextor SATA SSD (RAID0 volume) |~| Linux Boot Drive: 500GB Kingston A2000 |~| Storage: 4TB WD Black HDD |~| Case: Cooler Master Silencio S600 |~| Display 1 (leftmost): Eizo (unknown model) 1920x1080 IPS @ 60Hz|~| Display 2 (center): BenQ ZOWIE XL2540 1920x1080 TN @ 240Hz |~| Display 3 (rightmost): Wacom Cintiq Pro 24 3840x2160 IPS @ 60Hz 10-bit |~| OS: Windows 10 Pro (games / art) + Linux (distro: NixOS; programming and daily driver)
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might be that you accidentally changed the desktop scaling.

If you have a track pad just pinch to change it, if its a desktop hold down control and use your mousewheel to change the scale.

 

Either that or like the other person said, you changed the icon sizes and spacing to allow for a larger gap between icons and windows will use that space instead of wrap the text.

 

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I have checked the scaling, and it set to default 100%.

I have already tried to change the horizontal and vertical scaling via regedit, but changing them did nothing

 

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